The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
-Ambrose Bierce
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
